"Table Talk" Study Hour - Episode 47

Carolyn Yeager and Ray Goodwin read and comment on the August 3-6, 1942 lunch and dinner table monologues by the German Leader, as taken down in shorthand by aide Heinrich Heim, who has returned to the job. Included in this episode:

• Hitler uses the instinctual behaviors within bee and ant colonies to explain the value of merciless perseverence [he understands it's a question of survival];
• American military courts established in Britain - Poor military decision-making influenced by Jews;
• Food and food supply - stories of Prince Arenberg;
• Praise plus criticism for the Italians - more on ruling the Eastern territories;
• Living in open rather than crowded spaces gives one a wider view - St. Petersburg and Moscow must be destroyed - creating markets in the occupied East;
• Mistreatment of the peasant class led to migration of some of the best of Germans - France and Italy both have strong peasantry which stabilize a nation.

The edition of Hitler's Table Talk being used was translated by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, published by Enigma Books, New York, and can be found as a pdf here.